Archive for the ‘Trucks/Pickups’ Category
Truck shoppers hoping to grab a Mahindra pickup early next year are gonna have to wait a little longer. It seems the challenges of bringing an India-made vehicle to the U.S. are difficult, and the vehicles now won't go on sale in the U.S. before the fourth quarter of 2009.Even though 324 dealers hav......
Ford reveals Super Duty Cabela FX4 and Harley-Davidson F-450 models
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Outdoor enthusiasts and urban cowboys get some love from Ford this year in the form of the Blue Oval's first-ever Cabela FX4-edition F-Series and the latest Harley-Davidson tie-up -- the first time ever the Bar and Shield logo has appeared on the heaviest-duty F-450 model.Apparently, Ford has found ......
eBay Find of the Day: Frank’s “Million Mile” Chevy Silverado
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
You've got thirty grand and you want a pickup truck, do you A) buy new, or B) hit eBay for a million-mile Silverado. Frank, who had a mild brush with celebrity when the odometer on his truck hit seven-figures recently, would like you to buy his truck. The 1991 Chevy Silverado 1500 is still on its or......
Navistar not going to buy GM’s medium duty truck business
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
It's an epic poem that could have been written by Byron: you suffered a nasty breakup and met a new girl, you dated for a while, things were looking outstanding, you proposed... and then the bottom dropped out of the medium-duty truck business. We've seen it all before. And now that it's happened, N......
2010 Pontiac G8 ST may get direct-inject V6
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Click above for high-res gallery of the 2010 Pontiac G8 STThe Pontiac G8 Sport Truck was originally supposed to be powered only by General Motors' 361-horsepower 6.0L V8, but tough fuel economy standards and customer demand for fuel efficient products have conspired to change the General's plans. Ed......
Dallas HOA prohibits parking F-150 in driveway; Lincoln Mark LT allowed
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Yet another example of a Homeowner's Association run amok... A Texas homeowner in Frisco (just north of Dallas) has been told by the Stonebriar HOA that this Ford F-150 isn't allowed to be parked in his driveway. The Association, established to protect Jim Greenwood's interests (that's the theory at......
Ford slashing F-150 customization by 90 percent
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Click on the pic above for our high-res 2009 Ford F-150 galleryAs staggering as it may seem, the 2008 Ford F-150 pickup can be ordered in billions of different combinations. That's all going to change for 2009. In an effort to reduce complexity and cut spiraling costs in the process, Ford will be sl......
Man buys truck with change, LOTS of change
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
I once bought an ice cream cone with two fistfuls of pennies. It did not make me popular on that busy summer's day many years ago, but I got my sugar cone with a scoop of Black Raspberry. A 70-year-old Ohio man recently bellied up to the bar at his local Chevrolet dealer and allowed them to count $8......
Officially Official: Pontiac G8 ST it is
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Click above for hi-res gallery of the 2010 Pontiac G8 STWe often go poking around General Motors' media resources, so imagine our surprise when we were searching for something totally unrelated and found fresh images of Pontiac's iteration of the Holden Ute. Still warm like just-baked cookies, the i......
2009 Dodge Ram priced from $22,170
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Click above for high-res gallery of the 2009 Dodge RamDodge has a tough road ahead when it comes to selling the redesigned 2009 Ram. Though fuel prices have indeed dropped a bit in the last few weeks, consumers surely still have cash registers ringing in their heads when thinking of large V8 engines......